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The Ten Types of Human
by Dexter Dias
One of my favorite books of 2020. It argues against the reductionist idea that we are at core, our survival instincts. Instead, Dexter Dias provides multiple examples of human capabilities in extreme cruelty and altruistic acts in enlightening us about modular “Types”. These ten types of choice making modules are in each one of us, lurking, to take center stage in decision making when the opportunity arises.
To understand and know these modules will help us appeal to the better types in attempt to overtake the types at the core of issues causing human suffering. It is essentially a humanist idea, and although I believe humans are inherently unable to do good unless a divine moral agent gives them the ability to do otherwise, I believe the scientific evidence is strong, and so therefore must not be rejected. His explanation of the modules must be taken into account in a machinery-like knowledge of what we are, and what we are capable of- which in accord with my beliefs, is that we are capable of both extreme good, and extreme bad.
A top ten lifetime book to read
To understand and know these modules will help us appeal to the better types in attempt to overtake the types at the core of issues causing human suffering. It is essentially a humanist idea, and although I believe humans are inherently unable to do good unless a divine moral agent gives them the ability to do otherwise, I believe the scientific evidence is strong, and so therefore must not be rejected. His explanation of the modules must be taken into account in a machinery-like knowledge of what we are, and what we are capable of- which in accord with my beliefs, is that we are capable of both extreme good, and extreme bad.
A top ten lifetime book to read